Preface
The first edition of the book Biomedical Signal and Image Processing was published by CRC Press in 2005. It was used by many universities and educational
institutions as a textbook for upper undergraduate level and first-year graduate level
courses in signal and image processing. It was also used by a number of companies
and research institutions as a reference book for their research projects. This highly
encouraging impact of the first edition motivated me to look into ways to improve the
book and create a second edition.
The following improvements have been made to the second edition:
• A number of editorial corrections have been made to address the typos,
grammatical errors, and ambiguities in some mathematical equations.
• Many examples have been added to almost all chapters, of which the majority are MATLAB ® examples, further illustrating the concepts described in
the text.
• Further explanations and justifications have been provided for some signal
and image processing concepts that may have needed more illustration.
Finally, I would like to thank all the people who contacted me and my coauthor,
Dr. Robert Splinter, and shared with us their thoughts and ideas regarding this book.
I hope that you find the second edition even more useful than the first one!
Kayvan Najarian
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
For MATLAB ® and Simulink ® product information, please contact:
The MathWorks, Inc.
3 Apple Hill Drive
Natick, MA, 01760-2098 USA
Tel: 508-647-7000
Fax: 508-647-7001
E-mail: info@mathworks.com
Web: www.mathworks.com
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The first edition of the book Biomedical Signal and Image Processing was published by CRC Press in 2005. It was used by many universities and educational
institutions as a textbook for upper undergraduate level and first-year graduate level
courses in signal and image processing. It was also used by a number of companies
and research institutions as a reference book for their research projects. This highly
encouraging impact of the first edition motivated me to look into ways to improve the
book and create a second edition.
The following improvements have been made to the second edition:
• A number of editorial corrections have been made to address the typos,
grammatical errors, and ambiguities in some mathematical equations.
• Many examples have been added to almost all chapters, of which the majority are MATLAB ® examples, further illustrating the concepts described in
the text.
• Further explanations and justifications have been provided for some signal
and image processing concepts that may have needed more illustration.
Finally, I would like to thank all the people who contacted me and my coauthor,
Dr. Robert Splinter, and shared with us their thoughts and ideas regarding this book.
I hope that you find the second edition even more useful than the first one!
Kayvan Najarian
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
For MATLAB ® and Simulink ® product information, please contact:
The MathWorks, Inc.
3 Apple Hill Drive
Natick, MA, 01760-2098 USA
Tel: 508-647-7000
Fax: 508-647-7001
E-mail: info@mathworks.com
Web: www.mathworks.com
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